“If a child is born in your country he gets immediately the citizenship. That is the law. So the conclusion is that anyone who is born in this land, he gets nationality.”
Prabhpada, Detroit, July 16, 1971: […] Just like when you go to your office but you find the bus too much crowded. But you are not happy. Because the bus is too crowded, you have to stand, or very…, with difficulty you have to stand. You don’t like that. But because you have to go to the office, you tolerate. You tolerate. “First my business is to go to office, attend at the time. What can be done? Let me suffer this.”
Similarly, if you are serious about your business, that seriousness can be understood in this human form of life. The animals cannot understand. The animals, they are taken to slaughterhouse, and one said… If one animal enters, all the animals will enter. They do not know.
Even they know that “We are going to be slaughtered,” they have no means to protest or to go out. If a human being is slaughtered in the street, then his relatives, his kinsmen, file suit and brings the man into law. So many facilities are there for a human being. But an animal, because it is animal, it has no facility.
A cow is born in America, and a gentleman is born in America, but the state takes care of the gentleman, not of the cows. They say “national,” “nationality.” Why nationality is refused to the animals? Just like few days or few years ago the nationality was also awarded to the black man. This is nice. Why one section of humanity should be denied nationality?
That was very nice. So similarly, if national means the living entity born in that land… That is natural. If a child, even of an Indian, if a child is born in your country he gets immediately the citizenship. That is the law. So the conclusion is that anyone who is born in this land, he gets nationality.
But why we should refuse nationality to the poor animals? This is called ignorance. He is also… But we have made concoction, law, that “Animal has no soul.” Why it is, it has no soul? What is the difference between you and animal? You eat; the animal eats. You sleep; the animal sleeps. You have sex life; the animal has sex life. You also try to defend yourself and the animal also tries to defend himself.
So ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca, eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, these four principles, bodily demand, are similar to the animal and to the man. So why the animals should be denied nationality?
It is not that because they are less intelligent they should be denied nationality. No. Just like a father has got four boys. Not that everyone is of the same intelligence. But does the father give less protection to the less intelligent son? No. The protection, the family protection, is equal for everyone.
Full Lecture
Shri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that ;
yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ajñāya guru hañā tāra ei deśa
[Cc. Madhya 7.128]
He says that “Under My order, you become a spiritual master.” To become a spiritual master under the order of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is not very difficult.
There are Two main instructions from Shri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu i.e. ” Under My Order “.
And what is that order? The order is that “Whomever you meet, you talk to him about Kṛṣṇa.”
And the SECOND instruction is i.e. ” become spiritual master.”
To become Spiritual Master, there are obviously QUALIFICATIONS, and therefore, one must obtain such QUALIFICATIONS as outlined in the Shastras, Sadhus and the Guru Parampara.
OM TAT SAT.
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.